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Exactly the same error was spotted on a voter ID card last week, with the incorrect date on the Spanish version of the form only.

A spokesman for the county told the Huffington Post that the blunder was an honest mistake, resulting from a confusion with last year' election date.

Blunder: Last week Maricopa County officials listed the wrong date for the election in a Spanish-language document, but printed the correct date in the English version of the information

However, minorities activist group
Campaign for Community Change argued, 'No reasonable person can believe
that these are all honest mistakes.'

The group blamed county recorder
Helen Purcell for the screw-up, saying she had 'made it hard not to
suspect an obvious attempt at the County Recorder's office to suppress
Latino voters.'

Ms Purcell is a Republican, while Hispanic voters tend to support Democrats by a margin of around two to one.

It was revealed last week that identification cards given to voters in Phoenix and its suburbs were accompanied by a piece of paper listing the dates of upcoming major elections.

Controversy: Local sheriff Joe Arpaio is nationally famous for his aggressive crackdown on illegal immigration

The presidential election date
appeared correctly in English as 'November 6, 2012', but the Spanish
equivalent read '8 de Noviembre 2012'.

Charlotte Walker told
ABC15 she had been given the incorrect document when she picked up her
ID at a government office in Phoenix.

'It
could have a significant impact on the election outcome because they'd
go to the polls on November 8th and they wouldn't be open,' she said.

Maricopa County officials said they had made 'an honest mistake' and estimated that only around 50 voters were affected by the error.

Election: Mitt Romney and Barack Obama will learn their fates on November 6... not November 8

However, campaigners argued that the misinformation could harm voters hoping to exercise their democratic voice.

'To know that there's information out there that's wrong, it's going to take a lot of work to make sure that people know the correct date,' said a spokesman for Promise Arizona, a group which aims to boost 'civic participation' among marginalised communities.

The county has long been at the centre of controversy over relations between Latino residents and government officials.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio is known for his uncompromising stance towards illegal immigration, and some say he goes too far in pursuing legal residents who happen to look Hispanic.